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Jannik Lindbæk
Jannik Lindbæk (born 23 March 1939) is a Norwegian banker and businessperson. Personal life He was born in Oslo as a son of banker Jannik Lindbæk, Sr. (1906–1966) and chief physician Ellen Margrethe Lund. His aunt was journalist and war correspondent Lise Lindbæk, and he was a great-grandson of Elise Aubert In December 1963 he married teacher Grete Schjøttelvig. Career Lindbæk finished his secondary education in Oslo and earned a siv.øk. degree from the Norwegian School of Economics in 1961. He later received a Fulbright scholarship to continue his business studies for one year at the University of Kansas. In 1962 he was hired in Vesta, where his father also worked. He quickly advanced through the ranks and became vice chief executive. In 1975 he was hired as chief executive officer in Storebrand, later Storebrand-Norden. Lindbæk's predecessor and later chairman, Gustav Aarestrup, was pressured out of the company in 1982, and Lindbæk resigned for unclear reasons in 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
StatoilHydro
Equinor ASA (formerly Statoil and StatoilHydro) is a Norwegian state-owned multinational energy company headquartered in Stavanger. It is primarily a petroleum company, operating in 36 countries with additional investments in renewable energy. In the 2020 Forbes Global 2000, Equinor was ranked as the 169th-largest public company in the world. the company has 21,126 employees. The current company was formed by the 2007 merger of Statoil with the oil and gas division of Norsk Hydro. As of 2017, the Government of Norway is the largest shareholder with 67% of the shares, while the rest is public stock. The ownership interest is managed by the Norwegian Ministry of Petroleum and Energy. The company is headquartered and led from Stavanger, while most of their international operations are currently led from Fornebu, outside Oslo. The name ''Equinor'' was adopted in 2018 and is formed by combining ''equi'', the root for words such as ''equity'', ''equality'', and ''equilibrium'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Businesspeople From Oslo
A businessperson, businessman, or businesswoman is an individual who has founded, owns, or holds shares in (including as an angel investor) a private-sector company. A businessperson undertakes activities (commercial or industrial) for the purpose of generating cash flow, sales, and revenue by using a combination of human, financial, intellectual, and physical capital with a view to fueling economic development and growth. History Prehistoric period: Traders Since a "businessman" can mean anyone in industry or commerce, businesspeople have existed as long as industry and commerce have existed. "Commerce" can simply mean "trade", and trade has existed through all of recorded history. The first businesspeople in human history were traders or merchants. Medieval period: Rise of the merchant class Merchants emerged as a "class" in medieval Italy (compare, for example, the Vaishya, the traditional merchant caste in Indian society). Between 1300 and 1500, modern accountin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
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1939 Births
This year also marks the start of the Second World War, the largest and deadliest conflict in human history. Events Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. January * January 1 ** Third Reich *** Jews are forbidden to work with Germans. *** The Youth Protection Act was passed on April 30, 1938 and the Working Hours Regulations came into effect. *** The Jews name change decree has gone into effect. ** The rest of the world *** In Spain, it becomes a duty of all young women under 25 to complete compulsory work service for one year. *** First edition of the Vienna New Year's Concert. *** The company of technology and manufacturing scientific instruments Hewlett-Packard, was founded in a garage in Palo Alto, California, by William (Bill) Hewlett and David Packard. This garage is now considered the birthplace of Silicon Valley. *** Sydney, in Australia, records temperature of 45 ËšC, the highest record for the city. *** Philipp Etter took over as Swi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eivind Reiten
Eivind Kristofer Reiten (born 2 April 1953) is a Norwegian economist, corporate officer and politician for the Centre Party. He served as Minister of Fisheries from 1985-1986 and Minister of Petroleum and Energy from 1989-1990, before entering a career in business. Reiten served as the Director General (CEO) of Norsk Hydro between 2001 and 2009, after which he took up the chairmanship of Norske Skog. Eivind Reiten was also Chairman of StatoilHydro for four days until he resigned from his position after Norsk Hydro had been accused of corruption. Political career Reiten was born in Midsund as the son of Kristofer Reiten, a farmer and fisher, and housewife Kjellaug Opstad. He enrolled as a student in 1972, and graduated from the University of Oslo in 1978 with a degree in economics. He worked as a civil servant from 1979 to 1982, and as a secretary for the Centre Party from 1982 to 1983. He was then brought into the government as state secretary to the Minister of Finance from 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leif Terje Løddesøl
Leif Terje Løddesøl (24 April 1935 – 18 November 2021) was a Norwegian businessperson. He was born in Oslo as a son of Aasulv Løddesøl (1896–1978) and Liv Marie Bjørlykke (1905–1994). He has been married twice. He graduated from the University of Oslo with the cand.jur. degree in 1960, and studied further, among others at the Hague Academy of International Law and the College of Europe in Brussels. After a period as deputy judge in Hardanger District Court he worked in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 1963 to 1966 and the Norwegian Shipowners' Association from 1966 to 1969. He was then the chief executive officer of ScanAustral from 1969 to 1973, Wilh. Wilhelmsen from 1973 to 1980 and Den norske Creditbank from 1980 to 1988. The bank became embroiled in hardships during a banking crisis (see among others the Black Monday 1987), and an employee also defrauded the bank. Løddesøl was removed as chief executive in 1988, but returned to the corporate executive tea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olav Hytta
Olav Hytta (born 2 July 1943) is a Norwegian businessperson. Hytta has a varied education, in both sciences, business administration and agriculture. He was hired by Hjartdal Sparebank in 1964, and by Fellesbanken in 1968. He was CEO of ABC Bank, later director of the Oslo/Akershus area of Sparebanken NOR, and the deputy CEO of Sparebanken NOR, and Gjensidige NOR until he was hired as CEO of Gjensidige NOR from 2000 to it merged to create DnB NOR in 2003. In 2003 he became chairman of DnB NOR. In 2008 he was succeeded by Anne Carine Tanum Anne Carine Tanum (born 27 November 1954) is a Norwegian business executive. She is the former owner and managing director of the Tanum chain of bookstores in the Oslo area which was sold to Egmont in 2006. The current chair of DNB and Litteratur .... References 1943 births Living people Norwegian bankers DNB ASA people {{norway-business-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerhard Heiberg
Jens Gerhard Heiberg (born 20 April 1939, in Oslo) is a Norwegian industrialist who was head of the Lillehammer Olympic Organizing Committee (LOOC) and member of the International Olympic Committee. Education Heiberg received a graduate degree in economics at the School of Economics in Copenhagen in 1963 and one in Human Relations in Business & Industry at the California State University in 1964. Career Heiberg began his career in 1965–1966 as a market analyst at Norsk Hydro. He then became vice president in 1973 and President in 1987. After his work at Norsk Hydro, he held various management positions at Borregaard from 1966 to 1972. In 1972, he was also deputy CEO of Norcem until 1973. He was then CEO of Norcem from 1973 to 1987 and of the merged Aker Norcem from 1987 to 1989. Heiberg became a member of the International Olympic Committee in 1994 and was board member of it from 2003 to 2017. He has been an honorary member since 2017. In 1994, he was the President of the Lil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jan Erik Langangen
Jan Erik Langangen (born 11 May 1950) is a Norwegian businessperson and lawyer. He was born in Porsgrunn as a son of Sigurd Langangen (1918–1973) and Lilly Auen (1919–1990). He graduated with the siv.øk. degree from the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration in 1973, and then took the cand.jur. degree at the University of Oslo in 1975. He was hired in the same year as a consultant in Statoil, and headed the economy and finance department from 1979. He remained here until 1983. He was then the deputy chief executive of ''Storebrand-Norden'' from 1983, and advanced to chief executive officer in 1985. From 1986 to 1988 he chaired the Association of Norwegian Insurance Companies. His company merged with UNI in 1991, creating ''UNI Storebrand''. After the Skandia raid in 1991–1992, when UNI Storebrand bought shares in Skandia without acquiring control over the company, and the shares later plummeted, Langangen was forced to leave Storebrand. He had also bee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Plan International
Plan International is a development and humanitarian organisation which works in over 75 countries across Africa, the Americas, and Asia to advance children’s rights and equality for girls. Its focus is on child protection, education, child participation, economic security, emergencies, health, sexual and reproductive health and rights, and water and sanitation. As of 2021, Plan International reached 26.2 million girls and 24.1 million boys through its programming. Plan International provides training in disaster preparedness, response and recovery, and has worked on relief efforts in countries including Haiti, Colombia and Japan. History Plan International was founded in 1937 during the Spanish Civil War by British journalist John Langdon-Davies and aid worker Eric Muggeridge. The organization was founded with the aim to provide food, accommodation and education to children whose lives had been disrupted by the Spanish Civil War. Timeline *1930s – Plan International was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Plan Norge
A plan is typically any diagram or list of steps with details of timing and resources, used to achieve an objective to do something. It is commonly understood as a temporal set of intended actions through which one expects to achieve a goal. For spatial or planar topologic or topographic sets see map. Plans can be formal or informal: * Structured and formal plans, used by multiple people, are more likely to occur in projects, diplomacy, careers, economic development, military campaigns, combat, sports, games, or in the conduct of other business. In most cases, the absence of a well-laid plan can have adverse effects: for example, a non-robust project plan can cost the organization time and money. * Informal or ad hoc plans are created by individuals in all of their pursuits. The most popular ways to describe plans are by their breadth, time frame, and specificity; however, these planning classifications are not independent of one another. For instance, there is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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